Madison Grant

Madison Grant (19 November 1865-30 May 1937) was an American lawyer, writer, and zoologist who was well-known for his work with conservationism and eugenics. He was a major proponent of scientific racism and played an active role in passing anti-immigration and anti-miscegenation laws.

Biography
Madison Grant was born in New York City, New York in 1865 to a prominent family. His paternal ancestors included Robert Treat Paine, and his mother was of Walloon Huguenot settler descent. Grant graduated from Yale University in 1887, and he became a prominent lawyer, writer, zoologist, and conservationist, famously saving the redwood treets. In 1916, he wrote The Passing of the Great Race, which created the concept of a Nordic race which was par excellence; he believed that, as the least evolved of the human races, the Nordics could be threatened by miscegenation. Grant supported segregating other races into ghettoes, preventing them from interacting with the Nordic race and forcing them to commit "race suicide" through miscegenation. Grant befriended eugenicist Charles Davenport through letters, and they worked together to pass anti-immigration and anti-miscegenation laws through the US Congress. He died in New York City in 1937 at the age of 71.